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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Firefighters Ordered Into Gay Parade Are Back in Court

Four San Diego firefighters who claim they suffered sexual harassment when they were ordered by the city to participate in an obscenity-laden "gay" pride parade in 2007 are going to trial for a second time, and their attorney says this time he'll seek to introduce photographic evidence of the illegal public sex at the event.

(This is what homosexuals would have us be tolerant of?)

The firefighters are John Ghiotto, Chad Allison, Jason Hewitt and Alexander Kane and they filed a complaint after being ordered to participate in the July 21, 2007, parade promoting homosexuality and explicit sex.

"These men were sexually harassed in clear violation of San Diego's sexual harassment code," LiMandri said. "Further, the California Constitution's freedom of speech provision prohibits compelled speech. What the firefighters were ordered to do was endorse what goes on at this parade through their participation in it."

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Ghiotto, a captain at the time, said he suggested to supervisors that volunteers be used for the parade, but instead officials ordered him to take a crew.

"While moving down the parade route we were subjected to verbal abuse, (show me your hose, you can put out my fire, give me mouth to mouth, flick you fireman) sexual gestures, (showing their penis, blowing kisses, grabbing their crotch, rubbing their nipples, tongue gestures, flipping us off)," Ghiotto reported in a statement.

"We were subject to this type of abuse and more throughout the parade route. You could not even look at the crowd without getting some type of sexual gesture. Even the Christian protesters were giving us grief for being a part of this. The experience left me feeling humiliated, embarrassed and offended," Ghiotto said.

"If any of my crew or I were to hang up pictures at the station of what we saw, we would be disciplined!" he said.

13 comments:

Oh ugh. The picture alone is worth a thousand words. If only people would open their eyes to what is really being asked of them (or demanded in some cases). After seeing this, I gritted my teeth and decided to do a Google search for San Diego Pride Festival images and boy did I get an eye-full of lewd, nude, scandalous, over-the-top pageantry. I was floored that this "festival" (in truth, an excuse to flaunt disgusting acts, rhetoric, and costume), is even allowed its annual occurrence in a public place where little children might be innocently subjected to its filth. Then, to my complete horror, I happened upon an article about a primary school in San Diego that actually allowed its children to walk in the parade! Unbelievable. It is absolutely deceiving that Tracy Jarman calls it simply a "fun event" in which her employees are "encouraged" to participate. Instead it is a parade of evil in which her employees were ordered to participate. I will pray hard that those firefighters win their case and that the jurors see through the lies presented in neatly packaged boxes with bows on top. Again, ugh.

Yeah, they were ordered to attend. They had no choice but to go, and as a result, they suffered all this abuse that their captain, Tracy Jarman, being a lesbian herself, most certainly knew they would suffer. It's a blatant abuse of power on her part.

One of the firefighters, a Captain at the time, requested that volunteers be used for the event rather than forcing people to go, but his request was denied and they were ordered to suit up in their uniforms and walk in the parade against their conscience. I like what one of them said, that if they had put pictures up in the office of the things they saw, they would most certainly have been disciplined. And yet, those same people who would execute that discipline, are the very people who required the attendance!

I wonder if Pearl is also "floored" that Mardi Gras (featuring debauchery similar to this San Diego parade but usually of an almost exclusively heterosexual nature) "is even allowed its annual occurrence in a public place where little children might be innocently subjected to its filth."

Or really any Mardi Gras, for that matter. The carnival, a three-day prelude to lent, has evolved into an excuse to liquor up and lose all inhibitions (not that our society has many of those left to begin with). It is a celebration increasingly marked by its nudity, revelry, and alcohol consumption. Yes, I strongly object to subjecting children to that.

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